The four belong to an independent group called The Elders, started by former South African President Nelson Mandela in 2007 to promote global peace and humanity, and traveled via charter plane with support staff, security and even a videographer.

If you want your questions to be taken seriously then you would do well to start by asking them without the arrant nonsense of paranoid fantasies in which the SyFy Channel has "recoiled in craven fear and trembling" before the intimidatory might of GLAAD's "homosex activists" (aka the Elders of Sodom, Media Division.)

A group of internationally prominent figures, known as the Elders, is seeking to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula and draw attention to the ongoing food shortages in North Korea with a trip to Pyongyang.

The former leaders, part of a private group called the Elders, said at a news conference in China on Monday that they were invited to assess the severity of North Korea's hunger situation and hoped to persuade other countries to relieve it.

Former President Carter is expected to return to North Korea late this month with a delegation of other retired world leaders, an informal grouping known as The Elders, on a visit to discuss regional tensions and reported food shortages in the communist state.